Vocabulary activity for Chapters 17-18 of Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder!
Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
Then between the root and the wee green pumpkin they carefully made a little _____ on the underside of the vine.
balk
slit
dimple
Then he put a candle _____ in the milk, and the end of the candle _____ he put carefully into the slit.
balk
dawdle
wick
Almanzo was sure he wouldn't frighten them; he wouldn't teach them to jump, or ____, or try to run away.
aggravate
balk
slit
Father might answer, slowly: "I did lay out to _____ the carrots and mend the fence."
aggravate
cultivate
slit
Father stood under a hemlock tree, and Almanzo sat under a tent of cedar boughs, and watched the raindrops _____ the water.
dawdling
cultivated
dimpling
So in the end they picked six of the biggest melons, and they _____ them one by one to the ice-house and put them on the damp, cold sawdust.
slit
dimpled
lugged
The air shimmered and _____ with heat, and little insects made a shrill sound.
wavered
dimpled
cultivated
Even Alice was _____ because he had wasted candy on a pig.
wavering
horrified
dimpled
"Goodness! don't _____ so!"
dawdle
aggravate
cultivate
"I guess I was _____," she said. "But I didn't mean to be."